The effects of sex of source and target on interpersonal conflict management styles

Conflict behaviors of difficult subordinates: Interactive effects of gender

“…Zammuto, London, and Rowland (1979) found that, regardless of gender, subordinates were less likely to withdraw from conflict 14 THE SOUTHERN COMMUNICATION JOURNAL with female supervisors than from conflict with male superiors and were more likely to use a confrontational approach with females than with males. Others (e.g., Berryman-Fink & Brunner, 1987) have reported no significant differences in conflict management behaviors exhibited by individuals in homogeneous and heterogeneous dyads.…”

“…Hocker and Wilmot (1985), for example, adapted the behavioral categories developed in Kilmann and Thomas' (1977) model of conflict management styles. Similarly, Berryman-Fink and Brunner (1987) employed Killman and Thomas' categories as operational definitions of conflict behaviors. Renwick (1977), as well as Zammuto, London, and Rowland (1979) utilized the categories developed by Blake and Mouton (1964), and Monroe and Sullivan (1977) incorporated Filley's (1975) taxonomy of conflict management behaviors.…”

Conflict behaviors of difficult subordinates

“…Hocker and Wilmot (1985), for example, adapted the behavioral categories developed in Killman's and Thomas's (1977) model of conflict management styles, while Berryman-Fink and Brunner (1987) used those categories as their operational definition of conflict behaviors. Renwick (1977), as well as Zammuto, London, and Rowland (1979), employed the categories of conflict resolution developed by Blake and Mouton (1964).…”

Mars, Venus and Gray: Gender Communication

“…Gray (1992: 22) writes that men constantly interrupt their partners and offer solutions while "Venusians never offer solutions while someone else is talking". While there are studies that found that men interrupt women more often than women interrupt men, often as a show of power (Berryman-Fink and Brunner, 1987), a meta-analysis of studies on interruptions by Dindia (1987) found that such studies failed to account for the fact that communication behaviour is often interdependent. So those who interrupt may have an effect on their partner's subsequent interrupting behaviour.…”